Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
Something of calumny always sticks.
To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
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